. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. bout two years at Ripon and Norwich, fromJuly 1915 to March 1917, then crossed toFrance in April 1917 and fought at first inminor engagements around Ypres in 20 September 1917 his Battalion wasordered to take Poelcapelle, the fighting de-veloped into the Battle of Passchendaele, andhis company was detailed to capture a smallfarm called Rose Farm. In this encounter hewas killed in a hand-to-hand fight at the endof the day, 20 September 1917. He was happyin his work as a soldier and successful as anofficer. JENKINS, JAMES TEMPLE : 2nd Li
. Roll of service in the Great War, 1914-1919. bout two years at Ripon and Norwich, fromJuly 1915 to March 1917, then crossed toFrance in April 1917 and fought at first inminor engagements around Ypres in 20 September 1917 his Battalion wasordered to take Poelcapelle, the fighting de-veloped into the Battle of Passchendaele, andhis company was detailed to capture a smallfarm called Rose Farm. In this encounter hewas killed in a hand-to-hand fight at the endof the day, 20 September 1917. He was happyin his work as a soldier and successful as anofficer. JENKINS, JAMES TEMPLE : 2nd Lieu-tenant, 4th Battalion Seaforth Highland-ers ; son of ThomasJenkins, fishcurer,Burghead ; born Burg-head, 30 November1883 ; graduated ,1904 ; partner in theherring-curing firm ofThomas Jenkins. Jenkins, always akeen Territorial, joinedthe Inns of in February 1916. He was commis-sioned a year later tothe 4th Seaforth Highlanders with whom heserved at Ripon until May of that year whenthe Battalion went to France. After serving. 70 IN MEMORIAM. in France for some months, Jenkins was woundedin an attack at Pheasant Farm where, as writes : He had done ex-tremely well during a day of hard was on his way back to the dressing sta-tion when he was killed by a shell, 20 Sep-tember 1917. Jenkins was already well known and highlyesteemed in the business circles with whichhe was connected, and his death cut short acareer of much promise. STRACHAX, PETER MELVIN : Lance-Corporal, 4th Battalion Gordon High-landers ; son of JohnStrachan, inspector ofpoor, Inverurie; bornAberdeen, 21 February1896 ; educated atInverurie Academy ;spent a year trainingin practical agricultureand entered the Uni-versity as an Agricul-tural student in Octo-ber 1914. In November of thatyear he enlisted in the4th Gordons. After a. period of training inAberdeen, Bedford, etc., he was sent overseasin June 1915, and served in Belgium andFrance as a bomber. He was wounded atH
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